cLM Magazine Table Attracts Much Attention

Not long ago a visiting lumberman, Mr. Harry Seaman, head of The Kirby Lumber Corporation of Houston, Texas, dropped into The California Lumber N{erchant offices for a visit. In the outer office he stopped to stare at our big magazine table. He wanted to know horv big it rvas, rvhat it was made of, and how rve got it into the building. We told him it r,vas trvelve feet long, four and one-half feet wide, made by hand out of solid mahogany with an inlaicl leather top, and that rve didn't get it into the building_ we built the building around it. He sent out for a com_ mercial photographer and took a picture of the table. Here is the picture.

It IS a very unusual table, both for size and handiwork. How it got into the Central Building is something rve havs nsyel discovered. It was probably hoisted up f.othe outside and brought in through one of the big windo.vs.

Tree Farms are managed as sound business operations. They mean mills produ,cing a constant flow of forest prod_ ucts for America. Their keynote is a steady search for and employment of improved utilization techniques lvhich will assure the communities they support enduring and healthy lives.

The best painters apply paint in fairly thick coats roughly 600 square feet per gallon, while unskilled painters very often apply coating too thin, covering as much as 1,000 or 1,200 square feet per gallon.

It had belonged to a former tenant and .il'as there when rve moved in, twenty-five years ago. We bought it. It is very useful as a magazine table, the one dozen drawers are fine storage places for various things, and it always attracts attention.

Back of and above the table there can be seen on the wall three of the very large pictures of Western trees that adorn the 'lr'alls of the CLM offices. Twenty years ago the West Coast Lumbermen's Association showed a splendid exhibit of Western tree pictures in New Orleans, Louisiana, all the pictures being very large and specially made. When the exhibit closed The CLM bought many of the pictures. They now adorn our office walls. These pictures and the big table always furnish visitors ryith something to ponder over.

Strength is closely related to the rveight or density of 'the wood. Higher strength may be obtained by excluiing pieces that are obviously of exceptionally light rveight ancl by using rate of growth and percentage of summer wood in selecting pieces of superior strength from those species in rvhich these characteristics are acceptable criteria.

Whether we cut our timber fast or slow, we rvill sooner or later come to the end of our virgin forests. This need cause no alarm. Like the rest of the civilized world we r,vill then rely upon managed forests for our wood supply.

number of plywood items in the list is reduced by about 25 per cent as small-increment size graduations are dropped.

4. A new grade-traden,ark has been introduced for the A-C (sound one side) grade of Exterior type material; it is PlyShield and will appear on the edge and back of the panel in addition to the "EXT-DFPA" type designation. PlyShield, the outdoor paneling grade for modern siding, somts, commercial buildings, farm structures, etc., now represents'a thircl of all fir plywood produced.

5. New grade specifications for PlyForm, the multiple re-use concrete Iorm panel.

PlyForm, in conformance with the new standard, is produced with both faces of the B quality veneer described in point two above. PlyForm continues to be of special inner-ply construction and continues to be edge-sealed and mill-oiled unless otherwise specified. PlyForm, of course, is manufactured with highly moisture-resistant adhesives which will resist an average of wetting and drying cycles.

Laboratory tests and field case studies over the past two years have proved the complete adequacy of this grade to fulfill the contractor needs for a combined sheathing and lining on the great majority of all concrete jobs. The panels are sanded smooth. Further, the large panel size, the stability of the material and the accuracy of panel dimer-rsions assures achievement of smooth, fin-free concrete surfaces.

Altogether, the new standard sets forth specifications for seven grades of Interior type and six grades of Ex- terior type plywood (see tables following). Grades and stock panel sizes are planned to offer the ultimate consumer a selection of panels carefully designed for specific applications and simultaneously achieve utilization of the raw material-timber.

Here are the plywood grades as provided for under cS45-48:

EXTERIOR TYPE GRADES

Grade-Trademark

EXT-DFPA A-A A

EXT-DFPA A-B A

EXT-DFPA PlyShield A

EXT-DFPA Utility B

EXT-DFPA Sheathing C

EXT-DFPA Concrete "ot*"

Face Back

(Sound) A (Sound)

(Sound) B (Solid)

(Sound) C (Ext. back)

(Solid) C (Ext. back)

(Ext. back) C (Ext. back)

(Solid) B (Solid)

INTERIOR TYPE GRADES

Grade-Trademark Face Back

Interior A-A A (Sound) A (Sound)

Interior A-B A (Sound) B (Solid)

Plypanel A (Sound) D (Int. back)

Plybase B (Solid) D (Int. back)

Plyscord (Sheathing) C (Ext. back) D (Int. back)

Pl1'fe.* (Concrete Form) B (Solid) B (Solid)

Door panels A (Sound) A (Sound)

A copy of the complete standard will be furnished free, upon request, by Douglas Fir Plywood Association, Tacoma 2, Wash. M.y

31 New Tree Farms in California and Washington

Portland, Ore., Nov. l3-Certification of 31 new Tree Farms covering 53,037 acres of Washington and California timberlands was announced today by the Western Pine association.

Brought into the rapidly expanding Tree Farm fold in the past six weeks, the new acreages constitute the largest number to be certified in a comparable period in the sixyear-old history of the program. The additions bring the total in the l2-state Western Pine region to 175 Tree Farms covering 2,694,447 acres.

Sixteen of the new farms covering 20,702 acres lie in California and 15 totaling 32,335 acres are in eastern Washington, the association reported.

Largest of the group is the 23,680-acre tract of the Klickitat Pine Box company, Klickitat, \Mash. Third largest in the Western Pine region of Washington, it consists of previously-logged land now covered with vigorous young stands of Ponderosa Pine and inland Douglas Fir. Smallest is the lGacre woodlot of Rodger S. Coate of White Salmon, Wash. The 15 new additions bring eastern Washington's total to 37, covering 203,231 acres.

More than half the California total was accounted for by the 13,120-acre Castle Crags Tree Farm of the Castle Creek Lumber company at Castella. The 24-acre Squirrel Creek Ranch Tree Farm at Grass Valley is the smallest of the new group. California's Tree Farms now number 40, covering 520,818 acres.

The Tree Farm movement, a nation-wide program sponsored by the country's forest products industries, requires that each certified area be protected and managed under sound forestry practices for the continuous production of commercial forest crops. Regional lumber associations administer the program in their areas. The American Forest Products Industries, fnc., on Oct. 4 reported an inventory of 1486 Tree Farms in the United States, coverilg t5,733,516 acres.

New California tree farmers are: California Door company, Diamond Spring, 2t00 acres; Arthur A. Kylander, Placerville, 235 acres; Barnes and Edwards Forest Products, Loomis, 1120 acres; M. B. Edwards, Auburn, 280 acres; E. G. Fellerson and L. W. Sanford, Grass Valley, 22 acres; Bert and Blair Harris, Placerville, 125 acres; C. E. Startt, Cassel, 2N acres; Yan Zee Sawmill, fnc., Weaverville, 2060 acres; Hat Creek Lumber company, Redding, 64O acres; E. J. Green, Shingletown, 140 acres; Castle Creek Lumber company, Castella, t3,120 acres; Jack B. Clinton, Groveland, 160 acres; Harry T. Meyer, Groveland, 82 acres; Ronald Rascoe, Grass Valley, 4O acres; M. I. Lacey, North San Juan, 200 acres; Dorothea Easton Nesbitt and Esther K. Easton, Groveland, 158 acres.

New Tree Farm owners in Washington are: Klickitat Pine Box company, Klickitat, 23,680 acres; Schmitten Lumber company, Cashmere, 6680 acres; Ray Carter, Ap(Continued on Page 130)